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Searching with a thematic focus on Aid and debt, Governance, Privatisation of infrastructure

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  New rules, new roles: does PSP benefit the poor?

  Wateraid, 2003

  This synthesis paper reports on the impact of the increasing role of the private sector in the provision of water services and resources on the rural and urban poor in 10 developing countries.
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  Capital markets financing for developing-country infrastructure projects

  Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2003

  This study is the result of the United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development held in Monterrey, Mexico in March 2002.
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  Tenure, diversity, and commitment: community participation for urban service provision

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2002

  This paper examines factors influencing a household’s willingness to participate in community based service provision programs.
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  Private sector development: pro-poor, or merely poor, service delivery?

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2002

  Looks at whether the private sector development addresses the challenges faced within pro-poor development, and draws on past experience of privatisation, especially within the context of privatisation.
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  African Scholars' Forum for Envisioning Africa: focus on NEPAD

  WSSD Web Site of the Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2002

  Collection of papers from a forum organised by the Heinrich Boell Foundation, together with the Mazingira Institute and the African academy of Sciences.
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  New strategies, old loan conditions: the case of Uganda

  Bretton Woods Project, 2002

  Based on secondary materials and interviews with leading officials within the Government of Uganda, bi-lateral and multi-lateral institutions and civil society organizations in Uganda and Washington DC over 2001, this study presents evidence that crucial policy prescriptions within the PRSC and PRGF may impair Uganda’s ability to effectively realize its antipoverty and growth goals.Uganda's Pov
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  The policy roots of economic crisis and poverty: a multi-country participatory assessment of structural adjustment

  Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network, 2001

  The report documents a systematic weakening of the productive capacity of the countries implementing Bank policies and the inability of these countries to generate productive employment at a living wage.
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  Growing dangers of service apartheid: how the World Bank Group’s Private Sector Development (PSD) Strategy threatens infrastructure and basic service provision

  Globalization Challenge Initiative, 2001

  This article discusses the World Bank's Private Sector Development Strategy (PSD).The article finds that:the main thrust of the PSD Strategy is not new.
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  Greening the Bretton Woods institutions

  Foreign Policy in Focus, 2001

  This looks at how the U.S. should adopt new foreign policy to influence World Bank and IMF strategic activities in a positive manner.This article finds that:the IMF and World Bank have failed to integrate environmental sustainability into their lending, concentrating instead on export-led exploitation of natural resources.
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  Industry structure and regulation

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  With increasing private provision of public infrastructure and redefinition of the role of government, a key question must be addressed: How should providers of infrastructure be regulated?

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